Unlike most of Mahasweta Devi's works, which focus on Bengali tribes and the rural dispossessed, the four stories collected in Bait are located in the urban and suburban criminal underworld, and form an unusual segment of Devi's oeuvre. The first story, "Fisherman", is about a man who recovers the b[...]

This selection of fifteen stories by five of the best-known Bengali women writers (Ashapurna Devi, Mahashweta Devi, Bani Basu, Suchitra Bhattacharya, and Nabaneeta DebSen) looks at the lives of those women who are neither stars nor martyrs in the feminist cause. They are voices, individual and parti[...]

Mahasweta Devi är en av det samtida Indiens mest betydande författare. Här introduceras hon för svenska läsare med ett fylligt urval av några av hennes mest kända noveller. Mahasweta Devi lever i Kolkata (Calcutta) och skriver på bengali. Ingen författare i dagens Indien personifierar som h[...]